FOLEY, Alabama -- A masked 19-year-old man got more than he bargained for Wednesday morning when he tried to scare teachers and children at Foley Elementary School. It landed him in jail.

About 10:45 a.m., Foley resident Deavin Williams, unarmed and wearing a gold, full-face mask, was walking down the public road that divides the campuses of the elementary and middle schools toward the elementary playground when a school employee spotted him and contacted the school resource officer, according to Foley police and county school officials.

“He walked down that street with a mask on,” White said. “He wasn’t there threatening anybody. According to him, he did it to see what the reaction out of the teachers and students would be and, of course, it put the schools into lockdown, which was proper procedure for them. School resource officers were able to stop him pretty quickly. They searched him and he had no weapons.”

Baldwin County Public Schools spokesman Terry Wilhite said school officials did exactly what they are trained to do. The lockdown lasted about 10 minutes before police gave the all clear.

“It’s a different day and age,” Wilhite said. “Any antic is taken seriously by law enforcement and school officials.”

It was a tense situation that turned out to be a bad prank.

“We didn’t think there was any threat to anyone’s safety there,” White said. “He was just doing it to get a rise out of teachers. It was just a stupid move.”

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(Updated at 11:40 a.m. Friday, Oct. 25, 2013, to include the 19-year-old's name.)